How Ai Weiwei, bit by bit, overcomes the Chinese surveillance state

Ai Weiwei is one of most highly-regarded, controversial artists of his time. In the West, he is viewed as China's preeminent artist and cultural critic; his written and visual work has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over, and he currently enjoys a new exhibit, Ai Weiwei: According to What?, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. (You should go if you get the chance.) However, his reach in China is considerably more limited -- since domestic media cannot even utter his name, most pe...